Kappa Alpha Psi

Founded: Indiana University Bloomington, 1911
Colony at Baker: March 8, 2008
Colors: Crimson and Creme
Flower: Red Carnation
Symbol: Diamond
Philanthropy: St. Jude’s Research Hospital
Nickname: Kapas, NUPEs
Motto: Achievement in every field of human endeavor
Values: God, Achievement, Scholarship and Family

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Kappa Alpha Psi was founded on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana on January 5, 1911. Early in this century, African American students were actively dissuaded from attending college. Formidable obstacles were erected to prevent the few who were enrolled from assimilating into co-curricular campus life. This ostracism characterized Indiana University in 1911, thus causing Elder Watson Diggs, Byron K. Armstrong, John Milton Lee, Guy Levis Grant, Ezra D. Alexander, Herny T. Asher, Marcus P. Blakemore, Paul W. Caine, Edward G. Irvin and George W. Edmonds to form Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Fashioning achievement as its purpose, Kappa Alpha Psi began uniting college men of culture, patriotism and honor in the bond of fraternity. Kappa Alpha Psi, a college fraternity, now composed of functioning undergraduate and alumni chapters on major college campuses and in cities throughout the country, is the crystallization of a dream. It is the beautiful realization of a vision shared by late revered founder, Elder Waston Diggs, The Dreamer.

The Baker University colony is unique. March 8, 2008, marked the date that Kappa Alpha Psi made its first step into Baker University. In the history of the University, there has never been a historically black fraternity chapter on the campus. Now the history of Baker University and Kappa Alpha Psi are forever merged.